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Tables of Contents for An Introduction to Judaism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of tables
x
 
List of illustrations
xi
 
Preface
xii
 
Chronology
xiv
 
Map of the Jewish world in 1930
xvi
 
Map of the Jewish world in the 1990s
xix
 
The Jews in the world
1
25
Who are the Jews?
1
3
Facts and figures
4
2
Natives or immigrants?
6
5
The Jews throughout the world
11
15
North America
11
4
Israel
15
4
Former Soviet Bloc countries
19
2
The European Union
21
3
Latin America
24
2
The Jewish people and its past
26
19
The Jewish nation
26
7
Enemies of the nation
33
12
Universalism
34
4
Assimilation
38
2
Individualism
40
1
Dispersion
41
2
Fragmentation
43
1
Genocide
43
2
Jewish books
45
21
The Bible
46
8
The prayer book
54
2
The Talmud
56
3
The Shulhan Arukh
59
3
The Zohar
62
1
The Guide of the Perplexed
63
3
The Jewish religion
66
18
Traditional Judaism
66
6
The modernist reform
72
7
Radical alternatives
79
5
The family
84
35
The family as a unit
84
5
The Jewish home: space
89
5
The Jewish home: time
94
13
Rites of passage
107
12
The community
119
36
The Jewish community and how it works
119
6
The synagogue
125
2
The worship of the synagogue
127
5
Religious services
132
9
The cycle of the year
141
6
Moments of life
147
3
Other communal institutions
150
5
God and the Jewish people
155
32
The Jews and God
155
5
Sources of Jewish theology
160
15
The Bible
161
3
Midrash and Haggadah
164
2
The philosophers
166
3
Mystical approaches
169
3
The liturgy as a source of theology
172
3
God in the twentieth century
175
12
Hermann Cohen and his legacy
175
4
American Jewish theology
179
3
God and the Shoah
182
3
New issues
185
2
Objectives
187
26
Holiness
187
3
Obedience
190
4
Righteousness
194
2
Faith
196
1
Fear
197
1
Love
198
3
Bringing the Messiah
201
5
Repairing the world
206
2
Making peace
208
1
After life
209
4
Judaism and the future
213
13
External pressures
214
1
Demographic trends
215
2
Political aspects
217
2
Social aspects
219
1
Religious pluralism
220
3
Theological developments
223
3
Glossary
226
12
Further reading
238
7
Index
245